American politician
David Bard (1744 – March 12, 1815) was a United States representative from Pennsylvania . Born at Carroll's Delight in Adams County, Pennsylvania , he graduated from Princeton College (New Jersey ) in 1773.
He studied theology and was licensed to preach by the Donegal Presbytery in 1777. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry at Lower Conotheague in 1779, and was a missionary in Virginia and west of the Allegheny Mountains . From 1786 to 1789, he was a pastor at Bedford, Pennsylvania , and later at Frankstown (now Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania ).
Bard was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1795, to March 3, 1799.
He was elected as a Republican to the Eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1803, until his death in Alexandria, Pennsylvania . He was interred in Sinking Valley Cemetery, near the hamlet of Arch Spring .
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